Corwin

Excellent borate. Thanks for the info, I ran a few experiments and I'm getting the hang of cropping now! My last problem is with saving the video. After cropping, I now have a 1280x720 video with a moving 310x640 crop area moving from left to right. How do I save only the cropped area? Edit: Hmmm, maybe Zoom is the function I want to use instead of Crop.

I reduced the preview display resolution, thanks, it's speeded up things! I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, borate. I created my cropped area, created a keyframe, then started playing the video. When I got to just before the subject moved I stopped the video, created another keyframe, played the video & let the subject move, stopped the video, then left-clicked on the cropped area to create the arrowed-crosshatch and dragged the cropped window to a new position. But when I restated the video from the beginning it seems like the cropped area is following my subject? Is there a hidden setting or something? Also, can you please explain the animation editor graph & how I can use it? The other PITA is sometimes when I click Pause || from the Clip Preview up top, sometimes it pauses & sometimes it stops and video goes back to time index 00:00. That is really annoying! Thank you to both of you, I really appreciate you taking the time to help me!

I have a 1280x720 mp4 video with several people and I need to crop out one person into a 320x720 section that will fit on a mobile phone screen. I can easily do this with the Crop effect. However about 3 minutes into this 20 minutes video I need to pan the crop selection to the left as the person walks left. I have to pan the crop selection a few times as the video plays as the person moves left and right. Easily done except that when I do this VideoPad rebuilds the entire video to the new crop position, starting from the beginning, and I have to sit and wait as VideoPad says "Building Preview". So what I need to do is move the crop position left or right as the video plays along. I can't find good documentation as to how to do this. There is an effect called Position that might help but there is little documentation. Can anyone please help? Thanks!